NCJ Number
176372
Date Published
1998
Length
179 pages
Annotation
This Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary for Fiscal Year 1997-98 profiles the structure and operations of Tennessee's court system and provides data pertinent to the courts' work in 1997-98.
Abstract
The book is divided into three section: Drug Incorporation and Interpretation, Methods, and Applications. An introductory paper provides a historical summary of the field and the research and development programs sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In the section on drug incorporation and interpretation, papers address an investigation of the incorporation of drugs in hair and the effectiveness of various procedures in removing externally applied drugs; methods of determining the presence of cocaine and its metabolites in hair; and research on environmental drug exposure. In the section on methods, one paper reports on the results of the first three interlaboratory studies on the analysis of hair for drugs of abuse conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Another paper in this section discusses the advantages of hair analysis for detecting the use of illicit drugs and procedures for differentiating between hair with external contamination and hair from drug users. Other papers in this section focus on a method for the simultaneous identification and quantification of several opiates and cocaine-related compounds in hair; investigations of various approaches for extracting drugs of abuse from hair; the use of high-performance liquid chromatography and radioimmunoassay to measure nicotine and cotinine in the hair of both smokers and nonsmokers; and the use of capillary electrophoresis for the analysis of hair for illicit drugs using either conventional capillary zone electrophoresis or micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography. The concluding paper in this section discusses the authors' experience in analyzing more than 1,000 hair samples from individuals in situations where there was reasonable suspicion that illegal drugs were being used. Six papers in the section on applications focus on extraction procedures for drugs in the hair of drug addicts, FBI research on hair analysis for illicit drugs, hair analysis for opiates in forensic cases, and three papers that discuss situations in which hair analysis to detect drug use can be useful. Chapter references, tables, and figures